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Why do ordinary human beings participate in 21st-century witch hunts, from cops and judges to reporters, crackpots and hate-spewing anonymous online “commenters”? While we await the probable release of accused murders Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito following their appeals trial, the story of the wrongly accused and recently sprung West Memphis Three provides insights.
Watch the CBS 48 Hours Mystery documentary on the West Memphis case tonight at 10 p.m. PST (see preview below). “These are three men who’ve spent half their lives locked up for the murders of three Cub Scouts. They’ve always maintained they didn’t commit those murders,” CBS reminds us. HBO is also showing two ground-breaking Paradise Lost documentaries on the case this month. A third Paradise Lost should be aired soon. They are fact-based, fair, and refreshingly free of talking heads...read more
http://blog.seattlepi.com/dempsey/2011/09/17/amanda-knox-case-is-italys-west-memphis-3/
Why do ordinary human beings participate in 21st-century witch hunts, from cops and judges to reporters, crackpots and hate-spewing anonymous online “commenters”? While we await the probable release of accused murders Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito following their appeals trial, the story of the wrongly accused and recently sprung West Memphis Three provides insights.
Watch the CBS 48 Hours Mystery documentary on the West Memphis case tonight at 10 p.m. PST (see preview below). “These are three men who’ve spent half their lives locked up for the murders of three Cub Scouts. They’ve always maintained they didn’t commit those murders,” CBS reminds us. HBO is also showing two ground-breaking Paradise Lost documentaries on the case this month. A third Paradise Lost should be aired soon. They are fact-based, fair, and refreshingly free of talking heads...read more
http://blog.seattlepi.com/dempsey/2011/09/17/amanda-knox-case-is-italys-west-memphis-3/
